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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      General Discussion: Five Miles to Midnight (1962) Mikis Theodorakis   Last Post   Posted:   Feb 5, 2016 - 3:34 PM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) Can't believe there is no thread on this European production starring Anthony Perkins and Sophia Loren. The score by Mikis Theodorakis is exactly the kind of thing that got me into film scores, with its jazzy, tense dissonance. The film is worth seeing and the CD is cheap.    Posted:   Feb 5, 2016 - 3:57 PM     By:   ZardozSpeaks   (Member) Hi, Onya. Wherever & whenever possible, I attempt to champion this soundtrack. The 1962 Five Miles to Midnight has been mentioned in the thread on pre-Zorba Theodorakis as well as the top 5 favorites for '62 thread (and a few other threads, too). http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=67592&forumID=1&archive=0 http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=84480&forumID=1&archive=0 Glad you love it. [by the way, I thought it was The 10th Victim by Piccioni which got you 'into' soundtracks. ]    Posted:   Feb 5, 2016 - 4:19 PM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) [by the way, I thought it was The 10th Victim by Piccioni which got you 'into' soundtracks. ] Actually, it was the Dark Shadows LP on Philips that got me into soundtracks. I got that when i was 5!    Posted:   Feb 6, 2016 - 8:34 AM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) Zardoz, are we the only two who like or know this score?    Posted:   Feb 6, 2016 - 8:49 AM     By:   Prince Damian   (Member) Make it three of us.Though I haven't played it in a while.    Posted:   Feb 6, 2016 - 8:55 AM     By:   ZardozSpeaks   (Member) Zardoz, are we the only two who like or know this score? I remember somewhere in these threads that there has (or had) been a collector who still owned his rare German United Artists LP of Five Miles to Midnight. That's 3 FSMers so far. [update: 4, including Damian] Keep in mind, though, that the guys responsible for those Harkit CD releases (much maligned as they are regarding copyright issues) must have very good taste in vintage soundtracks and they know the 'rare' albums to reissue. [I should include El label, as well, since they re-issued Jean Yatove's 1952 Girl in the Bikini - another album I would have never heard if not for the CD because I could never locate a used vinyl for sale]. We would still not have Boom! if not for Harkit, who also gave us the never-before-available Pope Joan by Jarre. As for who actually likes the music from Five Miles to Midnight, I fear we may indeed be the only 2 such persons. Based on Theodorakis' dissonant cues alone, I wish he would have been commissioned to compose music for Hitchcock's Torn Curtain instead of either Herrmann or Addison.    Posted:   Feb 6, 2016 - 9:03 AM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) Keep in mind, though, that the guys responsible for those Harkit CD releases (much maligned as they are regarding copyright issues) must have very good taste in vintage soundtracks and they know the 'rare' albums to reissue. I am one of the few defenders of Harkit around here.    Posted:   Feb 6, 2016 - 9:24 AM     By:   Last Child   (Member) with its jazzy, tense dissonance. it's spy/crime jazz. Play samples on Amazon. Cue #4 is pretty cool (havent finished them all yet). http://www.amazon.com/Five-Miles-Midnight/dp/B000FHYYGO Looks like the Harkit has an extra cue at the start, compared to the LP. The "Twistin" source cue.    Posted:   Feb 6, 2016 - 9:28 AM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) with its jazzy, tense dissonance. it's spy/crime jazz One phrase is a genre, one phrase is descriptive.    Posted:   Feb 6, 2016 - 9:34 AM     By:   ZardozSpeaks   (Member) so is 'Last Child' the 5th person to like it?    Posted:   Feb 6, 2016 - 9:38 AM     By:   Laurent78   (Member) it's spy/crime jazz Indeed, it reminds me a great deal of the path composers like Martial Solal followed in the late 50's and early 60's. Vladimir Cosma thinks this trend was initiated by Miles Davis' improvised score to ASCENSEUR POUR L'ECHAFAUD back in 1958 and that from then on the jazz idiom was associated with thrillers and suspense, but it's purely a convention in his opinion. Regarding Theodorakis, I don't know that score but enjoy very much the few ones I have : the double CD gathering Z, STATE OF SIEGE, SERPICO, PHAEDRA released by Drg, ZORBA (both the soundtrack and the ballet version) and ELEKTRA.    Posted:   Feb 6, 2016 - 9:42 AM     By:   Last Child   (Member) so is 'Last Child' the 5th person to like it? think'in about it. I'll have to track down the movie as well, but what's with the title? Sounds like one of those speed records set by the Millennium Falcon.    Posted:   Feb 7, 2016 - 12:52 PM     By:   ZardozSpeaks   (Member) so is 'Last Child' the 5th person to like it? think'in about it. I'll have to track down the movie as well, but what's with the title? Sounds like one of those speed records set by the Millennium Falcon. I still own my VHS copy of Five Miles to Midnight. The main title sequence is about the only music cue (non-source cue, that is) that's truly jazzy. The core of this Theodorakis opus is quite modernistic and texturally dense, very similar to most of Tristram Cary's film scores. If a track from Five Miles was programmed along with a cue from Cary's Quatermass, some listeners might think both were from the same score. Since you are very good at tracking down vintage films, Last Child, you might also consider searching for other Theodorakis-scored films from the same time period (such as 1960's Faces in the Dark or Shadow of the Cat) to get further samplings on the non-Greek music by Mikis. Hope these items will further convince you - while you're "think'in about it".    Posted:   Feb 7, 2016 - 12:56 PM     By:   ZardozSpeaks   (Member) current population of humans on Earth: 7,400,300,430 current count of humans who like the Five Miles to Midnight soundtrack: 5 or 6    Posted:   Feb 7, 2016 - 1:24 PM     By:   Last Child   (Member) If a track from Five Miles was programmed along with a cue from Cary's Quatermass, some listeners might think both were from the same score. I know where you're going with this since the title bothered me...FIVE MILES TO MIDNIGHT is as nonsensical as FIVE MILLIONS YEARS TO EARTH, but I never squawked about that one. I already ordered the cd, downloaded the movie, and have SHADOW OF THE CAT (but dont recall the music). Looks like FACES is also on UK dvd.     General Discussion: Five Miles to Midnight (1962) Mikis Theodorakis    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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